Why don’t Israelis Design for Firefox?
I love Firefox. I loved it before version 2.0, and now I love it even more. With its shiny new interface, amazing tabbed features, and fabulous plugins, why would anyone use Internet Explorer anymore?...
View ArticleCool Tool: Weebly – Website Creation Made Easy
Part of the Web 2.0 movement is the increasing ease of creating a web presence. Thanks to Blogs, Wikis, and other similar platforms, pretty much anyone can post content on the web. Weebly is a free...
View ArticleRemove customer purchasing fear with the shoe-burning method
A customer has walked into your store or has arrived at your web site. This person is interested in your product and plans to buy, whether from you or your competitor. Your price is reasonable and the...
View ArticleIf you build it (your website), they will come
A friend is currently enrolled in the MATI Small Business Course, a comprehensive course designed to provide budding entrepreneurs with the basics needed to start their own business. According to many...
View ArticleA website is part of your long-term vision
In yesterday’s post, I argued that a business should have a website right from the start so that they look professional for the first potential client that they meet. There are more reasons that a...
View ArticleCool Tool: Use LogMeIn to Access Any PC Over the Internet
Like many people, I use more than one computer for my work. Some people use their computer in their home plus an office computer, and some like myself, have a desktop and a laptop. My laptop allows me...
View ArticleNetvision is superior to ISOC-IL – or at least they think they are
Netvision apparently thinks that they are the rulers of all things Internet in Israel. They may have a large market share of Internet accounts, but their bravado with regards to Internet standards...
View Article7 lessons learned from digg’s home page
This past Thursday, our new media site, israelplug, reached digg’s home page. As we watched in disbelief, tens of thousands of readers flooded our site (and brought it crashing down in the classic...
View Articleilluminea has a new site design!
Yes, we’ve revamped our website, and it’s about time! If you’re reading this in a feed reader, come on over and check it out. Our old site was divided into two parts: one part was a static site built...
View ArticleSphinnCon Israel coming up…and not a woman to be seen (on a panel)
SphinnCon Israel is sold out! SphinnCon Israel is a SphinnCon networking event focused on search and internet marketing, and is taking place this coming Tuesday, February 5 at the Jerusalem College of...
View ArticleSphinnCon Israel summary…more to come later
As I wrote a few days ago, SphinnCon came to Israel this week on February 5 in the form of SphinnCon Israel. It turns out that this wasn’t only the first SphinnCon in Israel, but it was the first...
View ArticleSphinnCon Israel review part 1: Barry Schwartz’s introduction
I know this is way overdue, but I actually have to work sometimes. So apologies.I already wrote a general overview of SphinnCon Israel. The next four posts will cover the sessions, and the information...
View ArticleThe password nightmare
Anyone who uses the Internet more than a few minutes per day knows what a nightmare passwords are. The importance of creating really complex and confusing passwords is clear. And, of course, we should...
View ArticleWhy I’m Winning the War Against Spammers
Recently I started working on a client’s website that required a good amount of anti-link building. Anti-link building? Isn’t SEO all about link building? Well, it was. Until the recent Google Penguin...
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